Dognosis is now backed by Boost VC and 1517 Fund, along with Dror Robinson, gradCapital and Stuart Gardner. Boost invests in deep-tech startups that bridge sci-fi and reality and 1517 backs drop-outs, renegade students and sci-fi founders. Given how we’re building in a heavily entrenched domain, with Itamar and I often being at the receiving end of ‘this sounds like crazy sci-fi’, we couldn’t have asked for better early-believers.
With this rocket fuel under our harness, we will launch the world’s largest breath-based multi-cancer screening study, right here in Namma Bengaluru, and clinically validate a highly actionable, accessible, and accurate test that will ensure everyone, especially those in the Global South, can afford cost-effective and life-saving treatment. We believe we already have the cure for cancer - it’s early detection - and we think the key to finding cancer early has been lying right under our noses.
The guiding dogma behind Dognosis is that dogs can be a lot more than pets - they are capable of being our partners in shared health and understanding. Under the canine furry hood is the most sophisticated olfactory sense-making system on the planet, with the ability to detect multiple diseases (28+ and counting) with accuracies that often surpass our best diagnostics. We expect a dog-driven revolution in the way we practice medicine - where diseases are caught early and treated successfully - to bring-forth a paradigm shift in the way we relate with humanity’s best friends, one that centers their welfare and well-being, ultimately uplifting both humans and dogs towards a trajectory of greater flourishing
More to come.
Dogspeed,
Akash